Why Hoenn is the Best Region in Pokemon
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2024
- Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald are some of the best games in the Pokemon series, and a big part of that is because of the map. The Hoenn Region has some of the best atmosphere and vibes of any Pokemon game, as it mixes colorful pixel art design with great music and animation for its time. Not to mention, Hoenn is home to some of the best Pokemon designs to have ever been introduced to the games. But for the purpose of this video, I go in detail about what makes so many of the towns and routes in Hoenn so great. When I play these video games, I feel like I can just sit for hours in some of the peaceful towns, or explore endlessly in the routes. I can go on and on about everything I love about Hoenn (which is what I do in the video) so stay till the end to find out why Hoenn is the best Pokemon Region!
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What's your favorite spot in Hoenn? ⬇️
Also route 113
Though I started with Omega Ruby, I still got absolutely enchanted by route 113's atmosphere and its music
Birth Island. Everything about its atmosphere is jarringly different from every other place in Hoenn. Almost creepy. The unnatural, triangular shape, the dead silence and the fact, theres nothing on it, except, for a weird, grey triangle thingy. *Chefs kiss*. Also, I love Deoxys, and its out of this world (heh) theme.
Battle frontier for sure. No other Region has such a unique post game.
Lillycove or Sootopolis
@@FargusPhil favorite routes: 104, 113 and that trek from Fortree to Lillycove.
Favorite cities: Slateport and Fortree
Favorite dungeon: Abandoned ship
came for the nostalgia, stayed for the immersive vibes . Nice video dude
Thanks for watching!
Hoenn Region best region
Yes.
I love that little spot when you first climb the waterfall and reach Ever Grande City. It's not really a city, there's just a single PokeCenter there, but the isolation makes it feel so cozy. If I lived in Hoenn, I would hang around with Nurse Joy in that PokeCenter all day, and get all excited when a new trainer showed up to challenge the League.
I’d live in Pacificlog Town
Same here! The isolation and simplicity of it honestly makes it a more epic entrance to victory road than some of the other games
naw dude fortree city is best
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You know, I never realized the unique designs of the houses in each city/town, and I’ve replayed Emerald multiple times. Good catch!
6:28 I always figured that the purple “goo” was just puddles on ledges since it has a splashing animation.
I love the Hoenn region. I've played through emerald version so many times. Pretty much every area in Hoenn holds a memorable moment for me.
Pokemon Ruby was my first Pokemon game! Hoenn will always have a special place in my heart! I think Hoenn has the best soundtrack. You Earned yourself a new subscriber!
It was my first game too! And hoenn easily has some of the best music it’s honestly underrated. Thank you so much for subscribing!
Any area with tons of creative environments is automatically fire in my books
If Hoenn just had a larger snow area it would be perfect
100% agree, the creativity is unmatched
hope someone makes a rom hack with hoenn map but expanded with a few more routes and hidden places
I don't think Hoenn needs a snowy area. It is a warmer region so it wouldn't make sense. I hate when they put a snowy area in a map just for the sake of it, like in modern Pokémon regions. Besides, Hoenn already has the Shoal Cave icy room, so it isn't like Hoenn lacks an icy place completely
@@danielcm4237i agree 100%
@@danielcm4237 i mean snow isn't exclsuive to the region, so long as their are high enough mountains you can have snowy mountain peaks. In a round about way, a giant mountain made my groudon could easily become a snow peak.
Still, my favorite region, Pokemon Sapphire, was my first Pokemon game, and other than childhood nostalgia. I really have to shout out the show for enhancing the atmosphere of Hoenn. Like from Pokemon Advance to Battle Frontier made Hoenn look even better ❤
I need to go back and rewatch old anime episodes, I haven’t seen them in so long. And you’re absolutely right
You forgot Mauville City, how it is essentially the crossroads of the region, New Mauville, how they represent the industrial trying to impose itself onto the natural and cycling road. You also forgot the abandoned ship, the sheer amount of mystique that comes with figuring out how it got stuck or sea Mauville in ORAS where it was a failed project by Watson to use infinity energy. You also forgot the southern water routes and the area outside of meteor falls that feels like a secluded beach or the many secluded islets you can visit by diving, and Shoal cave and how it varies with the time of day and how it combines the water and the caves and just how cozy and secluded the ice area in the lower cave feels and how great it feels to find out that there's more to discover. And of course who can forget sky pillar and how it's one of the most unique dungeons for a legendary with the crumbling floor or the mirage tower which combines the crumbling floor with the tower which also disappears after you pick a fossil and desert underpass in emerald and how they connect so well.
Yeah I wanted to go over those I just forgot when writing the script 😭 especially the abandoned ship I love that area so much
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Great video bro. Favorite song is end credits piano music after beating E4. Just sends me back to my boi Swampert. My first and only Pokémon I leveled naturally to 100. Emerald is the longest I played into the endgame. So much emotion, so much nostalgia. Man I miss being 10 when this game was brand new… hard to believe that was almost 20 years ago…
Thank you Fargus! This is a great video to see on Thanksgiving. Good ol' Nostalgia Fest.
Thank you for watching! Happy Thanksgiving!
I love this. I really enjoy Sabrina's region reviews and hope to see other ppl make a take in the regions as well.
I hope the series continues for other regions
Absolutely! I’m thinking sinnoh next, the series will probably just be in order of doing my favorite ones first lol
@@FargusPhil yes please 🙌🏻
Yeah. RSE will always be my favorite era of the game.
Bro is just spitting facts
They call me the fact machine 🤓
ok
Is it just me or did you forget mauville city despite being such an important crossroads-city in the early game?
And the actual desert part of the desert too ig
Just kinda stuck out to me because those are places you pretty much have to go through, unlike e.g. the sunken ship :P
Great video, hoenn for president ✊
Yeah I definitely meant to go over those plus the abandoned ship and shoal cave but I somehow just forgot them when writing the script and didn't notice until editing 😭 thanks for watching!
@@FargusPhil Relatable, also damn how did *I* forget about shoal cave?? That's like my second favorite location right behind route 113!
Thanks for making this video and for replying! :)
Of course! Glad you enjoyed!
If we don't get a Legends game set in the Hoenn region, I riot...ok maybe not, at best I'll be sad.
A legends game in Hoenn would be SOOO good
TBH GAME FREAK need to make a mega pokemon game every 10 years every region every gym leader island challenge battle frontier battle resort just have everything in one game that way we can have routes n free world play
Hoenn is such a brilliantly designed region. The diversity in biomes work so well together because the region separates them in a way that makes sense. I just love that each part of the region feels so incredibly exciting to explore.
That’s a really great point! And definitely it’s for sure the most fun to explore
great video, very homely, very comforting, love your green screen style, loved it.
I appreciate it very much! Thank you for watching, much more to come!
I don't think I can ever pick a favorite region out of the first 3 cause that's what I grew up on, but they really nailed the landscape diversity in this one
Every map from the 2D era just had that special charm to it 🤌
severeky underrated, i thought i was watching a youtuber with ATLEAST 100k+ subs, suprised to find you under 3k! Great vid
Thank you so much! I put a ton of effort into these vids, really glad to know that it shows 😁
this is so great; even after countless play-thrus i'd never really noticed or appreciated some of the details you point out here. and totally agree about slateport for sure
Glad I could put the spotlight on them!
Emerald my first Pokemon Game ❤️
Me too! Well really it was Ruby but same idea lol
Love Lavaridge Town Pokémon Center
Hoenn is my home region (with jotho as good region for vacation 😊) i would live in either Verdanturf,Fortree,Pacifidlog or Lilicove
Great choices!
Never clicked a video quicker! I can’t agree more but I’m just as biased as you are I grew up with it too. Great video I hope you blow up, subbed
Thanks for watching and subscribing! Best game to grow up on for sure
Hoenn is my home region (with jotho as good region for vacation 😊)
I replayed sapphire this summer. I forgot how fun it was to explore a region and how diverse it could be. With that being said, my favorite area is still route 113 and slateport
I always have to replay gen 3 like twice a year lol
I always felt the slateport music had a slight christmassy vibe to it in parts 🎄
I’ve never thought about it like that but honestly true!
Them bellzz
God, Hoenn was my first Pokemon region via Emerald. Easily my favorite game and region of all main games. It always feel like home no matter how old I get. I remember exploring so much (and yes, I did swim in the hot springs with the old women).
I was really obsessed, and I still am.
Hoenn will always be my second home too 🏠
Finally someone gets it 🙌
0:40 wrong, the journey begins inside a moving truck 😂
new sub, love the vid
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed!
Great video youre gonna have alot of subscribers
Thank you for watching! I appreciate it
Gen 2 is my favorite but Hoenn is second. I love the tropical vibes from fortree city and the surrounding areas to Mt Chimney and the ash covered routes 😍.
Definitely the best section of the game!
I think the "purple goo" is supposed to be puddles of water that dripped down from stalactites on the ceiling above.
And the colour is just reflecting the room itself.
i've always felt that the 16 bit graphics look for gen 3 was a defining look for the pokemon series. the games peaked visually with RSE in a way that i dont think the games ever will again
I completely agree, there’s something about gen 3 graphics that just worked for Pokémon like none of the other gens did. Honestly new vid on gen 3 graphics coming soon lmao thank you for the idea
Pokemon Emerald should be played as a start. The first pokemon game I played also Other games didn't feel good after playing this game.
100%
had the most memories with this gen was perfect to me
also the soundtrack >
There’s nothing in this world that gives me quite as much nostalgia as gen 3 Pokémon
I love gen 3. I started with yellow, so I usually appreciate gen 1 and 2 when looking back, but honestly I had so much fun in the gen 3 days, it was a nearly perfect pokemon experience. Gen 4 is when I feel pokemon just started feeling more soulless- i know most disagree, but I think they peaked in gen 3.
1000% agree man. Hoenn was my first region as a kid and will always be my go to 😎 the music in Hoenn is top tier
Hoenn music is honestly underrated, those trumpets go SO hard
My guess is the purple goo is just the ledges turned humid by water dripping from inside the cave.
Ohhh that makes a lot of sense! Still weird it’s so purpley though
@FargusPhil that's just me guessing. Since the water probably accumulates on the surface of the ledges
Like those stalach thingies?
I too am a gen 3 kid, now about to turn 30. The battle frontier is my favorite place even tho i hate it most of the time.
I'm a Sinnoh baby, but once I beat Pearl for the first time and read in a guide book about the GBA games affecting post-game encounters and I could play said games on the same system, Hoenn was the next region I jumped into and honestly it felt special. I played the heck out of Sapphire and Emerald, and when the remakes came out, I played the heck out of those too. A little too much since I got a bit burnt out on Hoenn after my...probably eighth consecutive run of ORAS, so I took a break and focused on other regions for a bit. I don't think it was until I played Crystal on the virtual console for the first time that I realized just how fantastic Hoenn actually was for the series because, I'm not on the Johto hate train since I think a lot of the flack comes purely from comparing it to future entries once Pokemon as a series started getting its footing better, but holy cow Gen 3 had so many quality of life improvements that I began to realize just how hard they went with these games. I'm eager to replay them soon once I either find my misplaced GBA collection or restart one of my ORAS files.
I love almost all the games (BDSP and a huge love-hate relationship with SV not withstanding), I'd even go up to bat for more hated regions like Kalos and Galar, and I'd be lying if I said I didn't have a bias for Sinnoh since that's where I started or Unova for being the first "new" game I played, but if someone were to ask me which games were the best, I'd honestly say R/S/E/OR/AS. What a feast of visuals, features, exploration, atmosphere, and pure charm (and the remakes add in some story and lore too~).
Also for my favorite area I'd say it's a toss-up between Fortree City, Meteor Falls, the underwater parts, Shoal Cave, and specifically the one beach with all the cypress trees in Mossdeep City.
Quick edit: HOW COULD I HAVE FORGOTTEN PACIFIDLOG TOWN?
The misplaced gba collection is too real, my childhood version of Ruby will unfortunately be forever lost 😭 but yes absolutely gen 3 will forever be one of the best
May or may not have missed a couple spots (sorry Abandoned Ship my bad)
Johto next?
I’m thinking Sinnoh next the Johto after 👀
Love hoen
I love this video!
Thank you so much for watching!
good analysis. i would also like someone from the old developing teams to say some things about what their idea behind the games world design was. if thats even possible
Maybe one day 🤞
The Abandoned Ship is awesome
I love how you took inspiration from internet pitstop and nakejakey
Internet Pitstop was a huge inspiration! I love his style and thought it’d be cool to do an in depth look at the regions with a similar vibe of video
I must be the only Kalos region fan at this point🥲
Nah you’re not I love Kalos too! I’ll definitely make a video on it at some point
Kalos was great but TF was the main problem ig.
You know, if I were to live in Fortree city; waking up every morning to go for a run only to run into an invisible Kecleon every 11 minutes. Well, that would just be OK. At least I have internet and T.V. right?
Ugggggg....hate Gen 3 music, because it reminds me of being in high school, not being able to enjoy playing it because I had to go to school for like....half the damn day........
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I'm sure this is already common knowledge for a lot of people, but all of the Pokemon regions are based off real regions on earth. In Hoenn's case, it's based off of the Kyushuu region of Japan and also Okinawa.
If I ever got the chance to go to Japan I'd LOVE to do a video on the real life similarities!
Man I wish they added actual diversity to the looks of the sea routes.
Loved side quests
10/10 The correct amount of water
Actually 5/10 not enough water
To get serious for a second, I do kinda wish that the water routes had more effort put into them to make them more distinct from each other. I think it was possible for them to put in as many of the little details that you talked about for the land routes and towns, and I’m kind of at a loss as to why they didn’t.
When you got old people guarding stuff you know it's serious😂😂😂
I grew up round blue red there forest seas mountains. We had pewter city who paved the way for all muciems. We have a power plant ice cave and victory road to get legendary pokemon. Mewtwo was final boss, with out this game there no polemon
I'm from Florida
Hoenn might be based off Kyushu but in my heart I feel it is Florida.
Thank goodness there’s no volcanos in Florida lol I’d have to change my vacation spot
1. Pokemon Emerald
2. Emerald Legacy
3. Emerald Seaglass
4. Elite Redux
5. Modern Emerald
6. Inclement Emerald
7. Energized Emerald
8. Emerald Kaizo
9. Pokémon Glazed
10. Pokémon ORAS
These are my top 10 Pokémon games that aren't called Heart Gold.
I wish there was more Pokémon to catch when you use dive
Finally someone with good taste
Same to you!
I remember at one point I had all three games bc they were great and lil different too ruby sapphire and emerald 😅
Same here!
I just came here to say that Hoenn is the best region purely because I'm biased and I don't care what anyone thinks about it.
I have an iPhone. How do you download Pokémon emulators games??
One word, delta. Ur welcome.
11:30 no wayyyyy
Best player characters, by far
I wish Fortree Town was better used in anime
Sinnoh is the Best for me but Hoenn is a close second
Pacifidlog is such a waste, they should've had at least made a side quest including it.
Emerald is the best game. Period
1000% 🤝
Idc what anyone says, emerald is and will always be the best pokemon game.
Now do it for jhoto
Definitely planning on doing all the other regions soon!
Guardrails
Nothing beats Sinnoh, bro. Nice try tho.
Sinnoh is definitely a close 2nd, video review on sinnoh next 👀
Nothing beats Johto, nice try though
Hoenn is S tier. 2nd and 4th gen are A tier
Sinnoh is overrated just like One Piece, both fanbases are similar annoying and have no taste
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